The Manhattan district attorney's office has dramatically escalated its investigation of former President Donald Trump.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg will begin presenting evidence to a grand jury on Trump's role in paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money payments before the 2016 election.
The payments were to cover up an alleged affair between Daniels and Trump. Recent reports revealed that Bragg's office had revived the investigation, which prosecutors used to charge former Trump attorney Michael Cohen with campaign finance violations.
Prosecutors at the Manhattan's D.A. office under Bragg's predecessor considered charging Trump with violating election law for falsifying business records to misrepresent the payments but ultimately abandoned the idea.
The latest developments open the possibility of criminal charges for Trump.
The New York Times further reports:
The grand jury was recently impaneled, and witness testimony will soon begin, a clear signal that the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, is nearing a decision about whether to charge Mr. Trump.
On Monday, one of the witnesses was seen with his lawyer entering the building in Lower Manhattan where the grand jury is sitting. The witness, David Pecker, is the former publisher of The National Enquirer, the tabloid that helped broker the deal with the porn star, Stormy Daniels.
As prosecutors prepare to reconstruct the events surrounding the payment for grand jurors, they have sought to interview several witnesses, including the tabloid's former editor, Dylan Howard, and two employees at Mr. Trump's company, the people said. Mr. Howard and the Trump Organization employees, Jeffrey McConney and Deborah Tarasoff, have not yet testified before the grand jury.
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A conviction is not a sure thing, in part because a case could hinge on showing that Mr. Trump and his company falsified records to hide the payout from voters days before the 2016 election, a low-level felony charge that would be based on a largely untested legal theory. The case would also rely on the testimony of Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump's former fixer who made the payment and who himself pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the hush money in 2018.
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more B.S. from these evil fks to try and keep Trump from running again {and winning again}
Never Ends does it? They are scared of him and he lives rent free in there minds.
Biden is in bed with China getting all kinds of money illegally and this prosecutor is worried about a few dollars supposedly paid to a hooker? Our country is in shambles MR. PROSECUTOR!!! Do something worthwhile.
This BS is nothing but Democrats trying their hardest to STOP President Trump from winning in 2024 ! This lying and fabricating crimes that President Trump has not committed is ridiculous!
This is Democrats panicking, because they know they will do whatever to keep Trump from winning !
Wonder if the Manhattan DA is getting his pertinent facts from Adam Schiff (Demented,CA)? That oughtta’ have Trump sweatin’, alright!
WHY HAVE THE DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA NOT GONE AFTER JOE BIDEN FOR ATTACKING TARA REED SEXUALLY WHEN HE WAS A SENATOR, AND TARA, A YOUNG STAFFER WHO WAS ASKED TO DELIVER JOE’S GOLF CLUBS TO HIS OFFICE? TARA REPORTED HER SEXUAL ATTACK TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES, BUT NOTHING CAME OF IT. ALSO, TARA TOLD HER MOTHER IN UPSTATE NY ABOUT HER ATTACK WHO CALLED A WELLKNOWN TALK SHOW HOST., THIS NEVER SEEMED TO PHAZE THE DEMOS, BUT THEY HAVE GONE AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR A LOT OF ‘STUFF’, MOST OF WHICH WAS NOTHING BUT ;’HOG WASH’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Bragg
Alvin is a left-wing scumbag RACIST.
It’s corrupt NY.